Breaking the Course Comfort Zone

Kelsey Connors • April 9, 2017

"It is so easy to take what we see and hear as the truth, allow it to take root, and grow in our minds until it becomes a fully formed opinion or belief. These are the seeds of prejudice, the beginnings of immigration bans."

BC Must Support Diversity Amid Changing Visa Policies

The Heights Editorial Board • March 29, 2017

"Regardless of what this administration believes, diversity is what already does, and always will, make this country great."

AHANA Trustees Push for Focus on Diversity

Connor Murphy • February 27, 2017

BC added a second voting African American trustee, Steve Pemberton, BC '89, in the fall.

Board of Trustees Must Continue to Increase Diversity

The Heights Editorial Board • February 27, 2017

"While it is possible that plans to foster greater diversity could be contained in other individual sections of the plan, it is imperative that this goal be one of the foremost considerations for the University in its planning initiatives moving forward."

Recognition, Representation, and Reward

Jacob Schick • February 2, 2017

Boston College organizations give their thoughts on this years nominations and speak to the larger issue of the lack of diversity in Hollywood.

A New Definition of Diversity

Karen Choi • February 2, 2017

"I believe that the University and students alike should also posses a true understanding of what it means to be a diverse campus."

Promoting BC Diversity

Brittany Smith • October 19, 2016

"We have the answer to resolving the diversity question at BC. I think we just have to value this question as being important enough to resolve and give it the attention it deserves."

The Challenge of White Supremacy on College Campuses

Craig Ford • September 7, 2016

"White bodies can be in the same physical space as nonwhite bodies and yet these two sorts of bodies can experience that identical environment in sometimes radically different ways."

UGBC Hosts Town Hall Meeting to Promote Racial Equality on Campus

Sophie Reardon • February 28, 2016

On Thursday evening, UGBC held a Town Hall meeting to expand their conversation on diversity and inclusion with the administration to include students and faculty.

Recent Talks Show Importance of Diversity in Speakers

The Heights Editorial Board • February 28, 2016

"As student groups consider possible speakers, they should keep in the mind the importance of diversity and the impact that a successful speaker such as Tchen can have on those who attend her talk."

Student Diversity Issues Reveal Need for New Administrative Position

The Heights Editorial Board • January 31, 2016

One of the most realistic and immediate ways for the administration to respond to these concerns and the complaints of groups such as Eradicate would be to institute an administrative position meant specifically to address these issues, an idea initially brought up by the Undergraduate Government of Boston College in its fall proposal.

The Effects of BC Exceptionalism

John Wiley • January 21, 2016

To “Eradicate Boston College Racism,” as the campus’s most recent wave of student activism has urged us to do, demands we investigate the very architecture of a BC education. This certainly extends to policy and curriculum decisions made at the top, but it does not stop there.